Nearly two weeks into a crushing blitz, Syrian forces and their allies have taken control of nearly all of what once was an opposition stronghold in eastern Aleppo, touching off a new wave of evacuations

Doctors Without Borders says 70 severely wounded Syrians, including 16 children, have been blocked from life-saving treatment since Jordan closed its border with Syria six months ago, and that some have likely died

Suffering successive defeats, the rebels proposed a five-day ceasefire in what many see as their Hail Mary, while a defiant Assad said the United States was "begging for a truce" seeing the dire straits the opposition factions were now in.

Bodies lie lifeless in the streets of Aleppo’s old city. Rescue workers are unable to pull out the dead fast enough under the unrelenting shelling and bombing by pro-Assad forces on the march. Two weeks into their renewed offensive on eastern Aleppo, Syria, forces backing President Bashar al-Assad